I guess the point to me is that Ukraine is able to make advances at all.

Until February/March, we all thought that Russia's military was 2nd only to the US.

Then we watch the Russian invasion of Ukraine fail to capture Kiev. We watched the Russian invasion struggle to advance to claim what territory they have claimed. And now we see Ukraine reclaiming some of that territory.

It's fair to say the media bias is intentionally skewed. It is.

It's also not trivial that any nation but the US is able to push back a Russian assault / land grab... even a bit.


I suspect that Russian military is actually much stronger, but the deep historical ties to Ukraine is playing hell on Russian morale for boots on the ground. That's just speculation, though. I find it hard to believe that the whole world was so so wrong about the Russian military capability. Doesn't mean I'm right.